Yucheng

Yu·cheng
Y4U1C3H4E1N1G2

proper noun

A county of Shangqiu, Henan, China.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A county of Shangqiu, Henan, China.

    In only eight months, a 143 m dam was built on the Tuhai River in Yucheng county to impound 50 million m3 of water and irrigate 500 000 mow.

    1972, Geography, Geographical Association, →OCLC, page 224
    2 more examples

    The provincial government has designated thirty-four counties in Henan as officially impoverished (pinkun xian) according to the provincial criterion: an average annual per capita income below 500 yuan and total household assets valued at less than 8,000 yuan, based on 1990 prices. Since foreigners are still prohibited from entering most such areas, I was able to visit only those that had already benefited from international and government-supported microfinance programs (discussed below), specifically Yucheng County in the east and Nanzhao County in the southwest of the province.

    2002, Kellee S. Tsai, “Creative Capitalists in Henan”, in Back-Alley Banking: Private Entrepreneurs in China, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 185

    State-run media outlet CGTN reports the dust storm arrived in central Henan’s Yucheng County at around 3 p.m. local time on Sunday (March 31). Winds whipped a large bouncy castle and other inflatable paraphernalia into the air, leaving a trail of destruction at the scenic spot.

    2019 April 1, Ryan Drillsma, “Dust devil kills two, injures 20 in China's Henan Province”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 01 Apr 2019, World

Origin

  1. Mandarin虞城
  2. EnglishYucheng

From Mandarin 虞城 (Yúchéng).

Full word history & related roots →

Translations

Chinese Mandarin 虞城
  • 虞城 (Yúchéng)county

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Cite this entry
APA

Yucheng. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yucheng

MLA

“Yucheng.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yucheng. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Yucheng,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yucheng.

Source: Yucheng on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.